In Autocade Year of Cars 2026, the mutual recognition deal between the US and the EU was mentioned—though we could have underestimated its severity on the bases that Europeans were unlikely to opt for huge US trucks that are impractical for their roads, too expensive to run, and a danger to others around them. This… Read More »Keep the US truck out of Europe
I’m very glad to say that we’ve soft-launched Autocade Year of Cars 2026, with the motoring press being notified soon. Like all good journalism projects, I wrote stories on things I didn’t know about but wanted to pursue. When did BMW grilles get all so confusing? The Bugatti Tourbillon was previewed in 2024, but I really… Read More »Out now: Autocade Year of Cars 2026
The next Autocade Year of Cars will have a top 10 table. We looked at sourcing the numbers from Focus2move, as we originally did for the full-year 2024 table, but their summary (at the time of writing; this page appears to change) did not hold water once we began investigating the rankings themselves based on… Read More »This year’s global top 10, to September 2025
Our good friend Colin Miller, to whom Autocade Year of Cars 2025 is dedicated, has passed away, aged 88. Colin was a motorhead, like most of us connected to Autocade. I still remember having a conversation with him about a Mercury Marquis I spotted. I said it was a beautiful hardtop sedan, and I was… Read More »Farewell to Colin Miller, 1937–2025
Ford Falcon is the most-visited model line page on Autocade. No surprises: it was once the longest-running passenger-car nameplate that Ford had (1959–2016), covering production in North America, Australia and Argentina. Mustang has since surpassed that time span. We started adding Falcons to the main site early on. The BF was the current model in… Read More »Fifty-seven years of Ford Falcons
All 13 generations of the Ford Thunderbird are on Autocade now. I believe the first entry of the 13 that we put in was the boxy, Fox-platform 1980 generation, completed on August 17, 2009. The 1977–9 Thunderbird was added in 2011. A few more generations were added in the first few days of January 2014.… Read More »Thunderbirds are go
President Donald J. Trump has been talking about tariffs for a very long time, even as a businessman back in the ’80s. Back then he lamented that the US was being hard done by Japan, with all the Japanese cars and VCRs that Americans were buying, and yet the reverse was not true. (Never mind… Read More »Tariffs won’t make the Big Two great again
With Carlos Tavares gone from the CEO’s office at Stellantis, there’s talk about culling brands again. Who could be on the chopping block? There’s the newly revived Lancia, which had been on death row for some time under FCA. Only one of the new models announced last year has been released. But that would be… Read More »Stellantis might cull; who’s the target?
For those who bought Year of Cars 2025, you’ll have seen a table that shows the top 10 in 2003, 2013 and 2023, though the last one was from a different source. There are new figures now based on units sold for 2024, detailed below. (Updated November 3, 2025, replacing Focus2move’s incorrect figures with those… Read More »Top 10 car makers by sales, 2024
